Europe's Nato allies push back at reported US threat to Spain

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) -- a transatlantic military and political alliance -- pushes back at suggestions the US could suspend Spain from the alliance over its opposition to the war in Iran.We are joined by a former Spanish foreign minister. Also in today's programme: There is growing opposition to the US and Israeli war in Iran within the US military; and the extinction of ash trees across the European continent. Presenter Paul Henley is joined by Kadri Liik, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Europe think tank based in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, and Michael Peel, science editor at the Financial Times in London. (Photo: European High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas (C) meets Vivian Motzfeldt (R), Minister for Foreign Affairs and Research of Greenland together with Roels Lund Poulsen (L), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence of Denmark in Brussels, Belgium, 19 January 2026. Credit: EPA/Shutterstock)